A material with which to manufacture wooden woods. Woods made from persimmon are made from one solid block of wood. Persimmon woods, while once very popular in the 1960's and before, have lost favor to metal woods. Persimmon woods are considered to be the “best” type of wooden woods produced and demand a premium price as a result. Persimmon is still being manufactured today, most notably by Louisville Golf in Louisville, Kentucky.
a hard and durable wood from the persimmon tree; used for most of the 20th century to make drivers and fairway woods; now mostly replaced by stainless steel and titanium, even though persimmon woods hit the ball as far and, according to some, have the added advantage of gear effect (because of optimal bulge in the face, gear effect is the fading or drawing of the ball back toward the fairway on miss-hits).
A wood from which many wooden clubs are made.